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Program Results Reports describe RWJF’s interest in the area and strategy for addressing the problem for those working in the field or interested in undertaking similar efforts. They explain the problem addressed; the activities undertaken; the results or findings from the work; lessons for the field; any post-grant activities—by the grantee or RWJF—and they include a bibliography of material produced during the project or program.

The After-School Corporation identified existing funding sources and worked with public and private officials to develop new funding resources, both for itself and for other after-school programs nationwide.

The Public Health Pipeline Program supported efforts by two education organizations from 1998 to 2003 to build the capacity of educational systems to improve science education for students in grades six through nine.

The American Nurses Foundation established the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics, an interdisciplinary group that brings together organizations to promote health professional education in the area of human genetics.

From September 1999 through December 2003, project staff at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, developed, launched and expanded a Web site called the End of Life / Palliative Education Resource Center.

Beginning in 1998, the Stanford Faculty Development Center of Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif., developed a curriculum for improving the teaching of end-of-life care in medical education.

A 1999-2001 joint initiative between the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Massachusetts Department of Health developed and piloted a collaborative, doctoral-level, tobacco-control research training program.